This is Hell! A Radio Interview.

"The things that separate him, at least rhetorically, from most of the
Republican party are his promise of a huge infrastructure program, and
the promise to protect Medicare and Social Security - to protect
entitlements. Those are the basis of his definition as a populist within
the Republican party. The interesting thing in the next since months is
going to be the degree to which he adheres to those policies."

--Mark Danner, January 2017

What happens when Donald Trump's improv act takes the highest stage?

Writer Mark Danner sat down to talk with This is hell!radio host Chuck Mertz about Donald Trump's future as a political actor and his article The Real Trump that was published in the New York Review of Books. Danner explains how Trump's populist infrastructure and entitlement promises will likely be tested early by a Republican congress. The show aired on Jan. 7, 2017, on WNUR 89.3FM Chicago.